Random thoughts about storage
There are a few big things moving right now in the digital world - I'm thinking here of digital objects or data that users find meaningful and valuable, such as photos or how much tax you paid last year.
1. Storage is cheap, transferring data is cheap and fast, everything is connected (most of the time, anyway...). This means it doesn't matter where your data is stored - the access method and rights issues are the same regardless, not that they are trivial by any means...
2. This also means that any digital data you have may be accessed from anywhere (location, device, etc.) - the data becomes more valuable if it supports this. Think of where/how Hotmail emails are stored.
3. Data will continue to accumulate. It may be forgotten, but only a fraction of it will ever be deleted.
This all bears thinking about - a lot.
1. Storage is cheap, transferring data is cheap and fast, everything is connected (most of the time, anyway...). This means it doesn't matter where your data is stored - the access method and rights issues are the same regardless, not that they are trivial by any means...
2. This also means that any digital data you have may be accessed from anywhere (location, device, etc.) - the data becomes more valuable if it supports this. Think of where/how Hotmail emails are stored.
3. Data will continue to accumulate. It may be forgotten, but only a fraction of it will ever be deleted.
This all bears thinking about - a lot.
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